CPU, APU & Chipsets News - Page 8

AMD's Ryzen 9 7900X3D processor has just dropped in price, down from $459 to just $409 right now... a damn good deal considering the CPU launched for $599.

The AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D processor launched for $599, rocking 12 cores and 24 threads of Zen 4 processing power with second-gen 3D V-Cache technology. The 12 cores and 24 threads boost up to 5.6GHz and rock 140MB of cache, all sitting on a power-sipping 120W TDP (compared to Intel's upcoming Core i9-14900KS special edition CPU pushing 400W+ and some).

Throughout 2023, pricing on the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D was pretty steady at around $500, but then in January 2024, we saw a discount bringing the price of the CPU down to $460, and now there's another $50 discount, dropping the 7900X3D to just $409.

Intel's upcoming flagship Core i9-14900KS isn't too far away now, rocking incredible 6.2GHz boost CPU clock speeds and over 400W of power consumption... yeah, you read that right: over four hundred watts of power.

The new limited edition processor will be the first CPU in the world with a clock speed surpassing 6.0GHz, with the previous Core i9-13900KS special edition CPU hitting up to 6.0GHz as well as the current Core i9-14900K hitting the 6000MHz frequency barrier.

Intel's new Core i9-14900KS processor will be the fastest consumer-focused CPU in the 14th Gen Core "Raptor Lake Refresh" CPU family until we get next-gen processors later this year and into 2025. We recently saw the full specifications of Intel's upcoming Core i9-14900KS through leaked OCCT tests, getting all the details we need before the big launch in March.

Intel has teased the development of a new technology that will be featured in its next-gen Lunar Lake mobile CPU architecture, with new sharpening filters that are smarter than existing filters.

The new approach would provide developers and gamers with the ability to tweak the sharpening effect on a per-region basis instead of applying sharpening to the entire image. Intel wants to focus on specific areas inside of the frame that wouldn't otherwise benefit from additional sharpening.

You don't want to oversharpen areas that don't require it, like backgrounds, for example, where this new sharpening filter would make games -- and even other apps -- have better image quality. An Intel engineer explained that adaptive sharpening won't just apply to games but to images and video software being run inside the operating system.

Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC reportedly shares the same CPU cluster, but the new Gen5 chips will sport new "Pegasus" CPU cores.

The latest rumors on Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 are coming from @For_Ataraxia on X, who says that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 features custom "Phoenix" cores, but the new Gen 5 chip will have upgraded "Pegasus" cores. Both of the SoCs will keep the same 2+6 CPU cluster, with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 featuring performance cores only and possibly up to 4.0GHz speeds.

We should expect Qualcomm to continue using just performance cores for its upgraded Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC, with another leaker saying that both of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Gen 5 chips will have the same "Slice" GPU architecture. These are just leaks, and things can change at a whim... Qualcomm might go in a different direction with its GPU, especially if it wants to better fight the likes of Apple and Samsung in future SoC designs.

Minisforum seems to be close to releasing its AMD-based Mobile on Desktop (MoDT) motherboard, which features an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX for $519. Not bad, read on:

Minisforum looks to be giving customers a choice between two different AMD Ryzen 7000 series mobile processors; the first is the Ryzen 7 7745X with 8 cores and 16 threads (model BD770i) or the Ryzen 9 7945HX with 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 4 processing power (model BD790i)

We have an integrated RDNA 2-based GPU, which has just 2 Compute Units, so it's a super limited GPU setup that won't be for 4K 120Hz gaming.

We know it's coming, Intel knows it's coming... and now it's closer: the unannounced Core i9-14900KS processor has been benchmarked, flexing its huge 6.2GHz boost CPU clocks. Check it out:

The new (and unannounced) Intel Core i9-14900KS processor has been tested on the benchmarking and stability tool OCCT, with a tester pushing the new CPU and showing us its detailed specifications.

Intel's upcoming Core i9-14900KS processor packs 24 cores and 32 threads of CPU power spread across 8 P-Cores and 16 E-Cores, matching the Core i9-14900K and Core i9-14900KF (KF variant drops the integrated GPU).

AMD's Zen 5 processors will boast "totally ludicrous" performance gains, or that's the fresh claim from a regular YouTube leaker.

This is RedGamingTech (RGT) who recently aired a leak on Zen 5 and now has a follow-up video, backing up those claims, and adding some further details.

As RGT noted before, the leaker is hearing from multiple sources - trusted ones apparently - that previous leakage suggesting 15% IPC gains with Zen 5 were actually underselling the silicon. (Note that this is the kind of level Moore's Law is Dead - MLID for short, another YouTube leaker - is claiming Zen 5 will deliver, or maybe a touch more).

AMD's just-launched Ryzen 7 8700G "Hawk Point" APU has fallen into the hands of overclockers across the world, with professional overclockers pushing the integrated GPU inside of the Hawk Point APU up to a blistering 3300MHz (3.3GHz).

The integrated Radeon 780M GPU inside of the Hawk Point APU was pushed to 3300MHz, with the SoC temperature (the whole chip, it's an APU, so there's a CPU, GPU, and NPU for AI tasks) running at just 44C and consuming 82W of power through heavy benchmarking.

The GPU maxed out at 47C under these loads at 3300MHz GPU clock, averaging 36C while the CPU core maxed out at 81.8C, averaging 40C under load.

Intel's future CPUs span a number of ranges, and we've just caught a leak around a processor which bristles with 12 performance cores.

However, this isn't an incoming chip for the next-gen desktop range, Arrow Lake, but rather it's a processor that'll be part of the Intel Bartlett Lake-S line-up.

At least in theory - if it's anything at all, given that this is just a leak from Chinese site Benchlife (via Wccftech) at this point. So, it may be entirely off the mark.

CPU shipments from AMD and Intel reached 66 million units in Q4 2023, up 7% quarter-to-quarter and 22% year-over-year, according to the latest JPR report.

Jon Peddie Research's new report also states that integrated GPU shipments (CPUs with integrated graphics or APUs with integrated graphics) increased to 60 million units, an increase of 7% over the quarter, while year-over-year, the increase of iGPU shipments was increased by 18%. Over the next 5 years, JPR estimates the penetration of iGPUs in the PC segment will grow to 98%, up from 84% in Q4 2023.

Jon Peddie, president of JPR, said in the report: "Q4's increase in client CPU shipments from last quarter is positive news in what has been depressing news in general. The increase in upsetting news in the Middle East, combined with the ongoing war in Ukraine, the trade war with China, and the layoffs at many organizations, has been a torrent of bad news in spite of decreased inflation and increased GDP in the U.S. CPU shipments are showing continued gains and are a leading indicator".